Douglas FeldmanThe 55-year-old was convicted in the 1999 shooting deaths of two men, one from Marshfield

Douglas Feldman / Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Fifteen years after killing a Marshfield man, Douglas Feldman is slated to be put to death by the state of Texas.

His execution has been set for this evening in Huntsville, Texas.

The 55-year-old Feldman was convicted in the 1999 Dallas-area shootings of Robert Stephen Everett, 36, of Marshfield, and Nicolas A. Velasquez, 62, of Irving, Texas.

Everett, 36, a part-time truck driver and minister, was killed in a drive-by shooting shortly before midnight on Aug. 24, 1998, while driving his tractor-trailer rig through Plano, Texas. He was hauling a shipment of toys.

Everett was on U.S. 75 when Feldman — on a motorcycle — pulled alongside his rig and fired at least 12 shots from a handgun, Plano police said. Everett was hit several times before he managed to stop his truck on the highway. He died a short time later.

Less than 40 minutes later, 10 miles away in Dallas, Exxon truck driver Nicolas A. Velasquez, 62, of Irving, Texas, was shot several times while unloading fuel at a service station.

Family members said Everett, a divorced father of two, had aspirations to become a traveling evangelist.

Two well-worn Bibles were found in his truck, they said.

The Webster County native had worked for RBX Trucking only a few months.

His mother, Jeanne Everett, wrote to the News-Leader in October 1999. She said the shooting started when her son veered into Feldman’s lane.

“If that is an excuse for murder, I-44 would be littered with bodies every day,” she wrote.

Jeanne Everett, who attended the seven-day trial in Texas, also said Feldman circled back around to make sure her son was dead.

Jeanne Everett said evidence at the trial included letters Feldman had written to a former girlfriend.

The letters were read in court.

“He fantasized about killing truckers. He hated them and their trucks that polluted the air and made noise,” she summarized.

“He had lived a life of crime from armed robbery, drug dealing and attempted murder for years.

He fantasized about what it would be like to kill people and urinate in their mouth and nose as their eyes glazed over.”

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In all, Feldman wrote 81 letters to his former girlfriend.

“I have come to hate every single person on this planet with all my heart and soul,” he wrote to the woman while awaiting trial.

“If I had a button which would kill every single person on this planet, I would push it with no hesitation whatsoever!”

“I have found it quite pleasurable to kill those two men,” he said in another letter to his ex-girlfriend.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials declined to make Feldman available to reporters as his death date approached after one media session never got underway because he ripped the telephone from the prison visiting cage.

It’s among 136 disciplinary cases Feldman has accumulated while on death row.

“He’s a memorable character, a dangerous person in any setting,” said Jason January, the former Dallas County district attorney who in 1999 prosecuted Feldman for capital murder.

“He threatened to kill me personally.”

Barring any delays ahead of the execution, Feldman will be the 11th prisoner executed this year in Texas and the third this month in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.

Feldman’s attorney, Robin Norris, filed a clemency petition with the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles that was turned down Monday.